Prepare for more multiverse madness as Chris and Alex dive into the world of Everything Everywhere All At Once (Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, 2022), the Oscar-winning absurdist sci-fi action adventure that engages head-on with the question of what it means to be human set against the backdrop of forking path storylines, a sumptuous mise-en-scène of colliding visual styles, and a maelstrom of digital VFX. The special guest for Episode 118 is Dr David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh and editor-in-chief of the journal Film-Philosophy, who specialises in philosophy’s relationship with cinema, Existentialism, phenomenology, the work of Jacques Derrida, and the presentation of thought and thinking in cinema. The trio cover a variety of topics appropriate to a film that slingshots spectators between multiple times and places, including what Everything Everywhere All At Once establishes in relation to feelings of worthlessness, apathy, and the power of choice; images of freedom and responsibility, and what it means for humanity to act in good faith; Michelle Yeoh’s star persona and her relationship to late-1990s/early-2000s Hollywood kung-fu cinema; the reflexive depiction of multiple femininities at breaking point; turns to chaos and fictional world theories rooted in what is made ‘possible’; and how a film like Everything Everywhere All At Once can add to and ‘do’ philosophical enquiry in positing how things might be otherwise than they are.
**Fantasy/Animation theme tune composed by Francisca Araujo**
Footnote #11 - Society for Animation Studies (with Chris Pallant)
Osmosis Jones (2001) (with Tom Sito)
Footnote #10 - Hybridity
100th Episodes
Footnote #9 - Sword and Sorcery
Your Name (2016) (Live at the British Film Institute)
Footnote #8 - Plasmaticness
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Footnote #7 - The Fantastic
Rogue One (2016) (with Jonathan Wroot)
Footnote #6 - Anthropomorphism
The Secret of Moonacre (2008) (with Lucy Shuttleworth)
Footnote #5 - High Fantasy and Low Fantasy
Contemporary Ukrainian Animation (with Joshua First)
Footnote #4 - Stop-Motion
Encanto (2021) (with Dolores Tierney)
Fantasy/Animation supports the #UCUstrike
Fantasy/Animation supports the #UCUstrike
Howl’s Moving Castle (2004) (with Brian Attebery)
Footnote #3 - Fantasy
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